Butler to start for Clips despite broken left hand

Published May. 5, 2012 1:30 p.m. ET

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Caron Butler is in the starting lineup for the Los Angeles
Clippers in Game 3 despite breaking his left hand in the opener of their
first-round playoff series against the Memphis
Grizzlies.

Butler sat out Game 2, which the Grizzles won in
Memphis to even the series 1-1.

Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro says the Clippers
might have underestimated the veteran forward's
toughness.

Butler's left hand is his non-shooting
hand.